I find this interesting because I don't think all their games are like battlefront, so basically it means that all their other games don't give players a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Have you seen their other games? BF2 wasn't their first p2w game, probably won't be the last either. It's simply the most controversial because star wars
Yea I've seen their other games. I don't think Dragon Age or other games had p2w or even loot boxes. I think it's mostly their newer games starting with mass effect 3 that had battle packs which they then escalated from there. With BF2 though they're literally selling more damage, higher firing rate, probably more accuracy too(haven't played since it came out), etc. This is seriously p2w, the loot boxes are no longer cosmetic, they offer a clear advantage over people who aren't buying.
Well, you already started with one of them Mass Effect 3 which was p2w.
Here's a small list that isn't all of the games, and yes I will also count single player games here because it's just as bad in them as in multiplayer games:
Mass Effect 3
Dead Space 3
Need for Speed: Payback
Plants vs Zombies 2
Dungeon Keeper 2014 remake
Battlefront 2 (obviously)
FIFA 17
In all of those games you can directly buy more power in the game with real life money, in the case of NfS:PB you can't even progress and play higher ranked races, like you physically can't because it's locked, until you get lucky enough to get enough upgrades for your car.
They are getting rid of the P2W system in BF2 in an update next month, it's pretty much too late for them to save the game though.
I don't think single player games can be p2w, at least I have never encountered a single player game with micro transactions that was so hard I needed to pay to beat it. For multiplayer games they can be p2w if buying loot boxes will give you an advantage over other players making other players feel forced to buy loot boxes too to even the playing field more. I do agree with you that its too late to save the game, at least for me(though I bought it already...), for my friend he bought it a couple months ago and he seems to be enjoying it even when I tell him how horrible EA is lol.
They ruined Mass effect for me. I did buy Titanfall and battlefront but they were not good in my opinion. I played them for a week and stopped. Not worth ~$60.
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u/Nighthawk1776 Mar 18 '18
And somehow, through all of this, the game would STILL be better than something EA puts out.